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Essay Archive - The Great Gatsby: Jay's Background and His Downfall
The Great Gatsby: Jay's Background and His Downfall
In the novel, The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby did not fit into the
lifestyle of Daisy and her friends. Because of his background, his dreams
were destined to be shattered even before he tried to achieve them. Jay
Gatsby's nouveau riche lifestyle was not of the ways of the old rich.
Jay Gatsby killed James Gatz at the age of seventeen as he boarded Dan
Cody's yacht. It was "...James Gatz who had been loafing along the beach that
afternoon...but it was already Jay Gatsby who borrowed a rowboat...and ....
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